Improvement in kitchen-tables



HENRY cLosTEeMAN, Jer,l

Improvement -in Kitchen Tables.

Patented Dec. 26,`1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY CLOSTERMAN, JR., OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. Y

IMPROVEMNT IN KITCHEN-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,225, dated December 26, 1871.

Specication of certain Improvements in Extension Tables, invented by HENRY CLosTAER- MAN, Jr., of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio.

My invention relates to that class of tables Which may be made to occupy less space when not in use than when fully extended; and consistskin a double top to the table, hinged at one end in such a manner that when a table-surface of greater dimensions is required the upper section of the top may be turned over until it rests upon legs and side rails which have been drawn out from Within the sides ofthe table for the purpose of supporting the extended top.v

Figure 1 is a' perspective View of a table enibodying my invention, the dotted lines showing the extended condition of the supportingirame. Fig. 2 is a partial horizontal section of the same extended. Y

My table is constructed with an oblong top, B, to one end of which is hinged a second similar top, B', so that it may fold over and rest upon it, as shown in Fig. l. The top B is attached to side rails or supports C and legs AA in customary manner. D are extension side rails or supports sliding Within the rails C, and supported at the outer or free end on legs E.

In ordinary domestic use the table is of small dimensions, as shown. When to he used as an 

